Overalls



H. W. MARTIN Feb. 24, 1931.

OVERALLS Filed Aug. 26, 1950 GHQ ATTcaala? Patented Feb. 24, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAROLD W. MARTIN, OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO EVERLASTIK, INC., OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS OVERALLS Application filed August 26, 1930. Serial No. 477,870.

The invention relates to an improvement in overalls of the type customarily used by workmen.

The invention pertains especially to the back of the overall where it is my object to provide a garment cut along the lines of the continuous high back overall but equipped with a broad elastic insert which allows complete freedom of movement and insures against binding at the crotch and binding at the shoulders, in other words, a garment in which is combined the advantageous features of the continuous high back overall and the elastic suspender back overall with none of the disadvantages of either. Especially is it my object to so a 'range that all strain brought upon the garment through pull on either of the shoulder straps shall be substantially compensated for by the tensioning oi the entire elastic insert without twisting thereof, and all pull on the body of the garment in the back transmitted through the elastic insert shall be an even pull with force equally distributed on the entire back body of the garment without disarranging pull in a part or portion thereof.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings in which such portion of the overall is shown as is necessary for an understanding of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a back view as the overall appears in use.

Fig. 2 is a plan of a detail of construction to which special reference will hereinafter be made.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the back portion of the body of the overall, and by the body of the overall is meant that part of the overall which extends completely around the body of the wearer at and below the waist and to which the leg portions 2, 2, are secured. 8, 3, are the straps passing over the shoulders and connecting at the front with a bib (not shown) in any suitable manner.

The back portion l of the body of the overall extends upwardly to about the waistline of the wearer. Thence it is extended upwardly at the centre by a gradually narrowing piece or portion 4. This piece or portion 4: presents ateither side concaved edges 5, 5, by which the narrowing eitect is secured, and at its upper end a horizontally extending top edge 6. The upward extension ofthe narrowing portion 4 of the body is such that its top edge 6 will lie just below the centre of the back of the wearer or in a position where the elastic insert 7 secured to it, to which special reference will later be made, will lie at approximately the centre of the back of the wearer.

The top edge 6' is an edge of some appreciable extent in order that the elastic insert 7 secured all along this edge shall be one of some considerable width. In practice the length of the edge 6 and the width ofthe insert secured to it is about four inches. The elastic insert 7 1 is a one-piece insert and of a relatively heavy web structure. It is secured along its bottom edge to the top edge 6 of the narrowing portion 4 of the body by suitable stitching. It yields in a vertical direction when the garment is onthe wearer.

The ends of the straps 3, 3 are securedby stitching to the top edge 8 of the elastic insert. The attachment is such that when strain is brough to bear upon one or the other of the straps separately in manner sufficient to cause the elastic insert to yield or stretch, such stretching will not be in a part or portion of the insert causing a twist therein, but the strain will be borne by practically the entire insert and any pull on the body portion of the garment below will be a straight pull. To this end the ends of the straps each engage the top edge 8 of the elastic insert to an appreciable extent. In Fig. 1 where the piece of webbing is of rectangular structure and the top edge 8 is a horizontal edge parallel with the bottomedge 6 of the insert, the ends of the straps in their attachment to the insert each extend well over the central portion of the insert overlapping one another. Thus connecting the pull of the shoulder straps will be on a line passing through the Vertical centre of the insert. Consequently when strain is brought upon the insert through one or the other of the straps it will cause the entire insert to stretch without twisting, or, in other words, the entire insert will bear the strain and not a portion thereof. All pull or draw transmitted through the elastic insert to the body of the garment below will be an even pull with no tendency to disarrange.

Substantially the same effect is obtained by the attachment shown in Fig. 2. Here the attached ends of the straps do not overlap when secured to the top edge of the webbing. The top edge of the webbing is cut on a bias to form opposing slanting edges 9, 9, each of which extends at substantially right angles to a longitudinal line extending centrally through the attaching portion of the straps and which lines for the two straps if extended will meet at about the vertical central portion of the elastic insert so that when strain is brought upon the insert through one or the other of the straps it will cause the entire insert tostretch without twisting, and all pull or draw transmitted through the insertto the body of the garment below will be an even pull with no tendency to disarrange the garment. In other words, in both the modes of attachment of the straps to the elastic insert shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the general efiect, when strain is brought upon the insert through pull on either of the straps, is that the strain will be substantially absorbed by the stretching or tensioning of the insert as a whole without twisting thereof, and all pull transmitted through the elastic insert to the body of the garment below to which it is attached will be an even pull with force equally distributed on the entire back body of the garment without disarranging pull in a part or portion thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention. I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

1'. An overall garment having a body portion extending to about the waist of the wearer at the back, thence gradually narrowing from either side with upward extension and approach to about the centre of'the wearers back, a relatively wide elastic insert secured to the top edge of said body extension and located at about the centre of the wearers back, shoulder straps secured to the top of said elastic insert with attachment whereby the line of pull exerted by either of said straps will pass substantially through the central Vertical portion of said insert.

2. An overall garment having a body portion extending to about the waist of the wearer at the back, thence gradually narrowing from either side with upward extension and approach to about the centre of the Wearers back, a relatively wide elastic insert secured to the top edge of said body extension and located at about the center of the wearers back, shoulder straps secured to the top edge or" said elastic insert, each having engagement therewith to an appreciable extent and overlapping one another at the top centre of the insert.

3. An overall garment having a body portion extending to about the waist of the wearer at the back, thence gradually narrowing from either side with upward extension and approach to about the centre of the wearers back, a relatively wide elastic insert secured to the top edge of said body extension and located at about the centre of the wearers back, said elastic insert presenting a top edge cut on bias to present top edge portions oppositely arranged whereby lines drawn centrally through said respective edge portions and at right angles thereto will when extended meet within the central vertical portion of said elastic insert, and shoulder straps secured respectively to said top edgeportions of the elastic insert.

HAROLD WV. MARTIN. 

